Word: mcclure
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...judging platform, the Pekes waddled briskly about on their stubby, bowed legs. To Pierrot of Hartle-bury, freshly brought from England by Mrs. Richard S. Quigley of Lock Haven, Pa., went the prize for best in show, which included the gigantic Lasca McClure Halley Trophy and the Challenge Cup donated by the late, great J. Pierpont Morgan...
...issue included such famed economists as John Maynard Keynes ("A New Monetary Policy for England"), Sir Josiah Stamp ("Our Price Level Problem"), William Trufant Foster ("Is Fiat Money Any Worse than Fiat Poverty?"). Among a group who discussed Mr. Foster's article was gloomy Richard Waldo, president of McClure Newspaper Syndicate. Books reviewed included Wages and the Road Ahead by General Motors' James David Mooney, The Dow Theory by Robert Rhea, The Banks and Prosperity by Lionel D. Edie...
...Detroit, Dr. Roy Donaldson McClure, who operated last fortnight on Henry Ford, marveled at his patient's youth and recuperative powers; revealed he was out of bed for a few moments the day following his operation; said his malady (gangrenous appendix strangulated in the hernial sac) was the first of its kind among 191,000 Henry Ford Hospital patients, one of 20 in medical history. Patient Ford sat up; invited newsmen in; announced for next year "something really new in automobiles"; denied he would sell Ford stock to the public or retire...
From Banks Island on they were never out of sight of wolves. They crossed the ice of McClure Strait to Melville Island. Wolves! They saw tracks of an Eskimo sledge going northwest toward Prince Patrick Island. Tracks indicated that 16 or 18 dogs were pulling the sledge, six or eight people accompanying them. This sight was first reward for the two hard-ridden explorers. They thus proved what the Canadian Government had contended was unlikely-that Eskimos never passed north of Banks Island. The pleased pair now bore eastward toward Winter Harbor to see what might lie there. Near Winter...
History. Everyone rightly associated Mnnsey's with the late Frank Andrews Munsey. Everyone knows McChire's was founded by Samuel Sidney McClure, although many are not aware that he is still alive, aged 75. Who was McCall? James McCall, Scottish tailor who arrived in the U. S. in the 1860's and started a pattern business, never knew there was a magazine named for him. In 1885 his company started publishing monthly an eight-page pamphlet of fashion notes, called The Queen. James McCall died that year. In 1891 the pamphlet was renamed The Queen of Fashion...